In 1983: San Francisco televsion cameraman Willie Kee is pulled from the mud at the site of a mudslide May 30, 1983 when a portion of Slide Mountain gave way, taking out Price Lake and sending a torrent of mud, water trees and boulders down the mountainside and across the valley including U.S. 395.
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In 1980: Silhouetted against tear gas, Reno police make their way south on Virginia Street during a New Year's Day riot in 1980. This was the middle of the Iran hostage situation and the revelers became violent when someone started yelling "Iran sucks, Iran sucks" at someone of Middle Eastern descent. One man died a few days later.
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In 1981: The National Tattoo Club of the World held its convention at the Sundowner Hotel and Casino in Reno. Here are Billy Hill of Roseville, Calif., and Bill Monkry from Buena Park, Calif. at the event's "beauty contest."
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In 1981: KCBN disc jockey Kevin Dee talks to his audience from inside a "jail" made of 7-Up. He had vowed to stay inside the "jail" until all the pop was sold to raise money for a muscular dystrophy drive.
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In 1981: Revelers in downtown Reno during the New Year's Eve celebration. The marquee behind them reads, "Win a baby Caddy, win a $20 gold piece for 25 cents ... The staff & employees wish you a happy New Year - bowl games wide TV."
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John Birges Sr., clad in shorts and handcuffs, is led into Reno Federal Court by a shotgun-wielding federal marshal on Aug. 27, 1981, one year to the day after a bomb that Birges and his co-conspirators had placed in Harvey's Resort Casino was detonated after officials were unable to defuse it.
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A federal marshal, armed with a shotgun, escorts John Birges Sr. in shorts and handcuffs into Reno federal court on Aug. 27, 1981, exactly one year to the day after a bomb he planted was detonated at the Lake Tahoe hotel casino.
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In 1982: About 14,000 people turn out to greet President Reagan at the quad on the campus of the University of Nevada Reno as the president starts a campaign tour. Left to right, the UNR mascot, Gov. Robert List, Reagan, U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt and Frank Fahrenkopf, Republican national chairman.
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In 1982: The University of Nevada was a power in men's cross country during the early 1980s, dominating the Big Sky Conference under coach Jack Cook. One of Cook's best cross country teams of the era included (from Left) Jorgen Eiremo, Miguel Tibaduiza, Edgar Leano, Tim Minor, Loaquin Leano and Big Sky individual champion Jairo Correa.
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In 1983: A horse is plucked from the mud from the June 4, 1983 Slide Moutain landslide, which killed one person. An area known as Price Lake literally fell away, sending water, mud, trees and other debris carreening down a canyon and onto Washoe Valley below.
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In 1980: A bomb is detonated at Harvey's Resort in Stateline on Aug. 27, 1980. The dynamite blew out the side of the 11-story resort and started a nearly yearlong manhunt for those behind it.
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In 1980: Unloaded sandbags wait to be positioned around the bomb at Harvey's Resort in Stateline on Aug. 27, 1980. The dynamite blew out the side of the 11-story resort and started a nearly yearlong manhunt for those behind it.
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